THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (VISCOUNT CRANBORNE) (Lord Cecil)My Lords, I beg the leave of the House to make a personal explanation. I feel that such an explanation is due from me to your Lordships. It seems that there may be some misunderstanding with regard to some words of mine in the debate yesterday on Lord Davies's Motion on the Bermuda Conference. I used the following words in the course of my reply: "Jews are to be associated with it," that is to say, with the Inter-Governmental Committee for Refugees. My words must not of course be held to anticipate a decision which must be reserved to the Committee itself. The association and its precise nature are obviously, matters for the Committee itself to determine. His Majesty's Government cannot commit the other members of the Executive Committee, although, of course, it arises from the very nature of that Committee that it will exclude from its consideration no aspect of the refugee problem and no responsible representations that might be made to it. I thought it proper to make this explanation to your Lordships.